Quote Magic Matt:you're making
a decision that is at least based on facts rather than the fiction of many conspiracy
theories that do the rounds.

I'm
making my decision based on personal experience! This is something I know a few things
about...

If you're saying
you've had direct experience of Google abusing your personal data, and suffered
consequences because of that, then I'd very much like the opportunity to see what happened
(off the public forum obviously). So far every person I've challenged to back up their
claims has fallen flat of being able to do so, and on inspection of the details, the fault
has in every case I've seen, been found to be putting information on a web site other than
Google, which has simply been indexed.